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Portraits of homeless people using libraries
By Cory Doctorow at 12:00 pm Tue, May 26, 2015
http://boingboing.net/

Libraries, "the last bastion of democracy," are a haven for America's 500,000 homeless people, where literature, Internet access, and nonfiction can come together to provide respite from the relentless brutality of life on the streets.

In a series of moving portraits of homeless people using San Francisco, Sacramento and San Jose's public libraries, Fritz Hoffmann tells a visual story of forgotten people in quiet reflection and study, and makes us remember something we'd prefer to forget. The librarians in the story see their role as defending democratic access to information and ideas and public space -- in San Francisco, the library system now has a full-time social worker

Read more at http://boingboing.net/2015/05/26/portraits-of-homeless-people-u.html
http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/24/public-library-portraits-californias-homeless-connect-in-a-quiet-place/